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There are those that will (understandably) advise you to take the RGB route; but it isn't always the best.

In my own case, I find a wide variation between both the cables and the hardware connected to my several years-old Toshiba television.

RGB gives a sharp and mostly pleasing picture (there's a few 'artifacts'), but one lacking in vibrancy.

I have four sources connected via s-video and all can provide a wonderful, stable image, with pleasing colour and detail.

Although it is 'only' a 29"/74cm screen, it's large enough to see 'faults' on playback and I can confidently say that whilst running via s-video, I can imagine the majority of people would be hard pushed to know which source they were viewing, if asked. Even those knowledgable in terms of RGB, s-video etc...

In some ways (on this television), RGB is better; but in terms of the finer parts of RGB viewing, the gap in quality between it and a good s-video source is far less than the void between s-video and composite viewing.